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    Disney’s The Little Mermaid Sara Drewery November 15‚ 2013 Movie Review Sara Drewery November 11‚ 2013 Professor Miller Movie Review Disney’s The Little Mermaid Walt Disney’s The Little Mermaid is an underwater fantasy that will leave viewers young and old visually satisfied with the array of vibrant colors that appear during the opening scenes. First released in 1989 by Walt Disney‚ The Little Mermaid grossed $111 million in the US‚ making

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    The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen (1836) AR out in the ocean‚ where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower‚ and as clear as crystal‚ it is very‚ very deep; so deep‚ indeed‚ that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples‚ piled one upon another‚ would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects. We must not imagine that there is nothing at the bottom of the sea but bare yellow sand. No‚ indeed; the

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    The year 1913 a wonderful bronze sculpture of a mermaid was created in Langeline‚ Copenhagen. Edvard Eriksen made this magnificent sculpture as a request to Carl Jacobsen‚ because he wanted to give something to the people of Copenhagen. Edvard made the statue renaissance. In 1909‚ Carl Jacobsen founder of Carl’s berg beer attended Hans Becks and Fini He4nriques ballet The Little Mermaid. Which is based on Hans Christian fairy tale by the same name. Deeply impressed‚ Carl Jacobsen asked Danish

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    Summary: In “The Little Mermaid‚” Hans Christian Andersen depicts the life of a mermaid‚ and her aspirations to live life on land as a human. The little mermaid lives deep in the dark depths of the sea with the sea king (her father)‚ her father’s subjects‚ her five sisters‚ and her grandmother. The little mermaid longed for nothing more than to see the world above the surface of the water‚ but a mermaid is not allowed to go up to the surface until the age of 15. The little mermaid waited patiently

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    how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them” (Sayers 1). This quote demonstrates that a great man comes from a great woman and one is not better than the other‚ but how many woman have great men behind them. In the The Little Mermaid‚ Ariel’s father is hard to please and is seen as dominant. He is in control of her and everything she does. If Ariel did something that he did not approve of‚ she would hear about it and get upset. Ariel did not listen to her father and did whatever

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    In the Disney movie “The Little Mermaid”‚ it tells a story of Ariel- a smart‚ beautiful and adventurous princess of the sea king who is captivated by the world of human beings on land. She always dreams that one day she can become a real girl who can travel all around the world and dance with two feet. However‚ although Ariel has a lovely face and the sweetest voice‚ she is displeased with her physical attributes as a mermaid with fish tail. She can only try to know about people by collecting the

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    the Disney empire creates nice pictures of "happily-ever-after‚" there are great alterations to the original versions while inculcating cultural values without necessarily examining them. 
 
 In Disney’s movie The Little Mermaid‚ Ariel‚ a sixteen-year-old mermaid princess‚ is dissatisfied with life under the sea and curious about the human world. Ariel fills a secret cave with all the human artifacts she has found and collected. She frequently goes to the forbidden surface to visit Scuttle

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    The Little Mermaid Analysis The Little Mermaid is an example of how woman were seen in society. In the fairy tale‚ women are characterized by appearance rather than personality by both men and women. The little mermaid mentions “But if you take my voice‚ what shall I have left?” (Anderson 226). In this quote‚ the little mermaid believes that she cannot just be herself to win the prince’s heart. The prince also looks at women the same way because of how he talks to the little mermaid. He

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    In Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid” we witness that there is not an actual Heaven for the mermaid but a sub-heaven that is a reflection of Heaven. It goes to say that in “The Girl Who Stepped on Bread” also by Andersen‚ there is a sub-hell (not actual Hell)‚ where she stands in the form of a statue in the entrance hall. Both these place are not where the characters expected to be‚ yet one scarified herself ending up in a sub-heaven and the other will suffer in the entrance hall of hell

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    Jackeline Elizabeth Chang Chang 1 Ms. Carr EMS30 24TH‚ March‚ 2010 The Little Mermaid The Little Mermaid is a film made in November‚ 17th‚ 1989. It was written by John Musker and Ron Clements. This is the story of a mermaid named Ariel‚ youngest daughter of King Triton‚ who is dissatisfied with life in the sea. She longs to be with the humans above the surface. She dreams of going on land. She is often caught in arguments with her father over those "barbaric

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